... things are running smoothly and everyone seems to be more or less settled in, so now seems like a good time to spend a moment asking
What do you want?
Is there anything you particularly
like? How about
dislike? What would you like to see more of? What new
features (or old features) would you like to see? Is there something that would totally make you visit more often? Is there something keeping you from visiting more often? Should we use more social media? Less social media? Did you even know we have a bunch of social media accounts? Do you only use the Discord? Do you want challenges? Video content? Live streaming? Podcasts? Reviews?
Basically, let us know, how we're doing, and what we should be doing instead.
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678 members have been active on the forums, since the move.
157 new registrations.
44 46 spammers banned.
3 spam messages have had to be cleaned up.
0 reported posts.
219 active threads.
Work in Progress perhaps unsurprisingly, the most active forum.
7 model releases.
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TLDR, though, I'm really happy with the revamp and really happy that things have been revitalized around here!
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By the way, I love the rotating banners. Whenever I hit the homepage or Recent Posts, I like to look at the top to see which one is up.
I too don't really use Social Media. I only check Facebook and post links to my art there so friends and family can see it.
Like Chris I too love the rotating banners. I know it take time to create them, but I look forwards to seeing more version of it in the future.
eh yeah, hah seriously do not use it. Forum seems to be fine with all the extras in and tuning done. Cannot think of anything to add that isnt small niggles that have been mentioned or I have not created with my client.
6months damn heh older you get just farting eats up a week it seems. . . . . .
wonder how many can see the animated hex pattern in the bg?
I bumped it up to 280. Hell, Twitter did it too.
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For me the main improvement is that the site is again being operated by people that are taking an active interest in the site. Thanks, by the way.
This would honestly be my only complaint. I dislike having to login again but that might just be an expired cookie on my end. Everything else has been great.
Other than that, it works like most other classic web forums. And that's good enough for me.
I already listed my list of (very inconsequential) "issues" here, but those are very small and don't really affect my enjoyment of the site or visit habits.
As to what new or returning features I'd like to see, challenges are probably at the top of my list, but even that is by no means a "must have" in my book.
Regarding social media, I know it's there but I don't really care one way or the other.
How about this.
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My two immediate kudos are on
1) There doesn't seem to be an image posting limit.
2) I no longer get warnings from Norton that the site is dangerous. On this last one, there was a part of the site that I did get some kind of warning (It was somewhere in account preferences or thereabouts), but for this post, I couldn't seem to reproduce it - so maybe it is gone.
Really virus scanners are just malware.
You can change the color scheme in your profile. There's three you can choose from. Mobile is only available in blue though.
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Nothing saying you cant start one.
That implies that I can just start a thread anywhere. To me it belongs at the Finished work, Works in Progress level as another main heading in the box designated "Artwork"
I don't see the appeal personally, but that doesn't mean I'm necessarily completely against the idea...
HOWEVER, I'm definitely not going to open new section for something, and wish it will pick up steam, especially in Artwork. I would approach it from the other end. Instead of opening up new sections and going "Post your [thing] in this fancy new section here", I would rather go "Wow, we sure are getting a lot of [thing] around here lately, how about we open up a new section for it". You know, promote things that are actually happening on the site, instead of wishing for them to happen.
Basically, if you want a section for your type of content, post a thread and then take care of it. If the thread does really well, maybe get some new tags (I'm constantly adding them, but trying to stick to pretty high level ones to keep them useful to everyone) and get it stickied. Once we're in the big thread territory and there's a notable activity going and a clear demand for more, we can consider opening up a new section for the thing.
This is actually a discussion we have on Discord on pretty regular intervals (adding sections, not orthos specifically), and so far I've been really stubborn about sticking my policy.
As far as Orthos go, specifically, if you want people to post their own work, Finished Work is probably the best place for a thread. If you want people to post stuff they find, General Discussion is the place. Not too keen on the latter, as I'd much rather people posted their own work on the site, but I do realize that a lot of people like to collect stuff online and hen share it with others.
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